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Stan Cox

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Salina, KS, United States

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  • Countercurrents.org
  • Resilience.org
  • CounterPunch
  • AlterNet
  • The Hill
  • Salon.com
  • Dissent Magazine
  • VICE
  • Pressenza in English
  • Washington Post

Past articles by Stan:

A Tale Of Two Mothers: Dying With Dignity And What Makes That Possible| Countercurrents

by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown — afflict our world that we often don’t take time to draw insights from what generally passes for the small stuff, the things that happen all too close to home, including aging. Most of us don’t relish the prospect of getting old, much less watching our parents approach their deaths, something… → Read More

“Sometimes A Gas Stove Is Not Just A Gas Stove”| Countercurrents

A Fox News headline writer called it “Biden’s War on Your Kitchen.” Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel wrote, “The reason gas stoves are in the → Read More

Paying For An Overheating Earth| Countercurrents

On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in → Read More

No Red Wave, but Plenty of Red Flags

This November, voters stood up and rejected a host of anti-democratic candidates all across America. → Read More

No Red Wave, But Plenty of Red Flags

This November, voters stood up and rejected a host of anti-democratic candidates all across America. Although the GOP eked out a victory in the House of → Read More

No Red Wave, But Plenty Of Red Flags| Countercurrents

This November, voters stood up and rejected a host of anti-democratic candidates all across America. Although the GOP eked out a victory in the House of → Read More

Are Green Resource Wars Looming?

The true burden of a massive battery in an electric car or truck will be borne not just by the vehicle’s suspension system, but by the people and ecosystems unlucky enough to be in or near the global supply chain that will produce it. → Read More

Are Green Resource Wars Looming?| Countercurrents

A national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally. It’s time to consider an overhaul → Read More

Real Climate Action’s Not At COP-27, But It Is In A Thousand Rebellious Communities| Countercurrents

Two high-profile events will coincide next month. One of them—the US midterm elections, which will conclude November 8—could provide the strongest indicator → Read More

War on the Earth: The nightmare of military spending on an overheating planet

War on the Earth: The nightmare of military spending on an overheating planet → Read More

“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields” — Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere

A company called Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing to build a 2,000-mile network of pipelines sprawling across parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. The system would collect liquefied carbon dioxide (CO2) → Read More

“We’ll Meet Them Out In The Fields”: Challenging The Pipelines To Nowhere| Countercurrents

Recent polls suggest that the bonkers, even barbaric, rhetoric coming from far-right MAGA candidates could be undermining Republicans’ chances of capturing → Read More

This Is No Time For Climate Complacency| Countercurrents

The Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed by the mainstream climate movement, Congress members, and the media as the most important climate bill in U.S. → Read More

Flatbeds filled with fury and fascism

Stan Cox, Angry White Guys in Big-Ass Pickups As gun sales in this country soar — another 43 million weapons bought in 2020 and 2021 alone — while the possession of military-style weaponry is normalized, whether in mass killings or everyday life, American politics, too, is becoming weaponized. If you doubt that, then you weren’t in that Comfort Inn room where, on the night of January 5, 2021, a… → Read More

Confronting “Policy Murder” And The Rising Violence Of The Right| Countercurrents

Priti Gulati Cox, It's Time, ink on vellum, embroidery. See closeups of individual images here. → Read More

The People Vs. Petrocracy| Countercurrents

The United States is moving fast on climate change—in the wrong direction. The Energy Information Agency forecasts that by 2023, the nation will set a new → Read More

Onslaught Of The Oily Authoritarians| Countercurrents

“I think for me the struggle to defend the truth is a precondition for defending our democracy, and the struggle to defend our democracy is a precondition for taking the effective action that needs to be taken in order to meet the climate crisis in a serious way and turn it around.” Democratic politicians are being pressed hard on issues of critical importance to Black, Native, and Latinx… → Read More

The Climate and the Republic, Melting Down in Real Time

Pro-democracy voters could, through our sheer numbers, overwhelm the anti-democracy camp’s attempts to subvert the Constitution. → Read More

The Climate And The Republic, Melting Down In Real Time| Countercurrents

Our climate predicament has been apparent for decades, but last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its starkest assessment yet. The → Read More

How Not to Cope with Vladimir Putin by Drilling and Pumping

More leading climate scientists, scholars, and activists have begun advocating for nationalization, declining caps, just-resource allocation, price controls, and rationing. → Read More